Shoot the Dog, Brad Smith
Shoot the Dog, Brad Smith
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Shoot the Dog

Author: Brad Smith

Narrator: Graham Winton

Unabridged: 7 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 09/13/2013

Synopsis

In upstate New York, Virgil Cain is drawing hay behind his team of massive Percherons when two movie scouts show up and offer $500 a day to use the horses in a film to be shot in the area. Virgil, in need of cash, reluctantly pockets the money, but he soon finds the chaotic set of Frontier Woman to be more trouble than it' s worth. Savvy producer Sam Sawchuk is in over her head; when she' s not propping up her talent-challenged husband-cum-director, she' s trying to keep tabs on a new investor, the Native American casino owner Ronnie Red Hawk, a rambling egomaniac with designs on an infamous starlet. When the film' s leading lady turns up dead, Virgil discovers that more is at stake than the carnal interests of a casino magnate and the production of a major motion picture. And although he' d rather leave the whole bunch to stew in their own juices, he realizes he needs to step in before a charming ten-year-old actress named Georgia becomes the next victim.

About Brad Smith

Brad Smith was born and raised in southern Ontario. He has worked as a farmer, signalman, insulator, truck driver, bartender, schoolteacher, maintenance mechanic, roofer, and carpenter. His novels include All Hat (a 2007 major motion picture staring Keith Carradine), Big Man Coming Down the Road, Busted Flush, Crow’s Landing, One-Eyed Jacks (nominated for the Dashiell Hammett Prize), Red Means Run, Rough Justice, and Shoot the Dog. He lives in the countryside outside Dunnville, Ontario, near the north shore of Lake Erie.

Reviews

Goodreads review by karen on May 06, 2021

this book is kind of like a the male version of a cozy mystery. and i don't mean that in a bad way at all, i only mean that all the death (and bedroom scenes) happen offscreen, and the book doesn't roll around in descriptive bloodshed. for some reason, i had thought he would be a grittier writer; on......more

Goodreads review by Robert on August 02, 2013

I like the rugged Southwest—New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona. Heck, even the Midwest doesn’t sound all that bad. And I like movies even more than I should. But I didn’t like this novel. Getting a behind the scenes peek at directors and producers and actors and actresses and funding shortfalls and casti......more

Goodreads review by DelAnne on March 08, 2014

Title: Shoot The Dog - Virgil Cain Mysteries Book 3 Author: Brad Smith Publisher: Scribner Published: 8-6-2013 ISBN: 9781439197561 E-Book ASIN: B00A28604K Pages: 321 Genre: Mystery Tags: Romance, Suspense Sensual Level: Mild Overall Rating: Very Good Virgil Cain, a former baseball player now working hard on h......more

Goodreads review by Luanne on September 11, 2013

Brad Smith returns with the third entry in his Virgil Cain series - Shoot the Dog. Virgil is again just minding his own business, plowing the back forty with a pair of Percherons when some movie folks scouting for locations pull up and offer to rent the horses for their 'Frontier Woman' movie. Well,......more

Goodreads review by Suspense Magazine on July 23, 2014

The third mystery novel in Brad Smith’s Virgil Cain Series, “Shoot the Dog” aims the spotlight at the seedy underbelly of the motion-picture industry and corruption inside an Indian-owned casino in upstate New York. Former baseball player and hardworking farmer Virgil Cain is a ruggedly handsome no-n......more

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